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Ostr. Berlin P. 10793

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 10793
Publication Number BGU VI 1489
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty:
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution partage
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1906 and 1906

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, grey brown
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 48 mm | 87 mm | 12 mm
Dating between -299 and -100
Criteria for Dating palaeography
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at bottom

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken at bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, ptolemaic cursive, hand unknown
Comments on Text Layout 6 lines, other side uninscribed
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title account concerning wages for assistants
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content account for wages of assistants in a 2nd year.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text corr. l. 1: hyperetais: to the assistants. l. 3 mh(nos). l. 6 name: [..]etei (Zmetis?)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1ὑπηρέταις 1ed. ὑπηρεσ\ί/αις, corr. ex υπηρεταισ τοῦ β (ἔτους)
2Πετοσίρει Πεαοῦτος
3μηνος α ζ 2ed. Παχ(ὼν(?)) α̣ ζ
4Νεχθενήβει α̣ (δραχμὰς) ζ
5Παχνούβει Ψενα? α̣ (δραχμὰς) ζ
6 ̣ ̣ητει 3ed. ηζει Ἁρβήχιος α̣ (δραχμὰς) ζ
6+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

1 ed. ὑπηρεσ\ί/αις, corr. ex υπηρεταισ
2 ed. Παχ(ὼν(?)) α̣ ζ
3 ed. ηζει
convex
1To the assistants of year 2
2to Petosiris, son of Peaus
3for 1 month 7 (dr.)
4to Nechthenebis for 1 (month) 7 dr.
5to Pachnoubis, son of Psena(mounis?), (for) 1 (month) 7 dr.
6to Zmetis, son of Arbechis, (for) 1 (month) 7 dr.
6+y- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4052 man Nechthenibis Νεχθενῆβις pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (middle) 02 Pachons 01 -299 BCE -100 BCE palaeographical dating;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 2886
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 02886
Trismegistos 7383
Papyri.info ddbdp/bgu;6;1489
Author BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 2886 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 10793), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: BerlPap-Team; Daniel Werning, Ruth Duttenhöfer.